RF

It’s clever that it’s purely syntactical sugar, so you can write new stuff with CoffeeScript without junking your old code. Or junking libs like jQuery if you’re into that scene.

It seems like, potentially, one could write tools to translate a lot of JavaScript to (non-idiomatic) CoffeeScript. It’d be plenty of work - you’d need to borrow someone’s JavaScript parser, walk the syntax tree, and deal with some crazy corner cases - but you could. That’d definitely make the JavaScript->CoffeeScript transition easier.